Mexico’s Democracy Matters — to Mexico and the US
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Mexican Supreme Court Halts Plan B Implementation
Plan B was the president’s way of circumventing the non-passage of a previous proposal to dispense with the INE altogether and put control and supervision of all elections under his office
Read moreFederal Court Orders Reinstatement of Jacobo as INE Head
Jacobo was forced to step down from his post upon the publication of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s contentious Plan B electoral law
Read moreElectoral Experts Warn Plan B Will Make Voting a ‘Nightmare’
The panel also determined that while Plan B would theoretically represent a savings of 3.5 billion pesos, it does not detail how these savings would be accomplished nor take into account the costs of transforming the country’s current electoral bodies
Read moreAMLO Accuses Supreme Court Head of Protecting Criminals
López Obrador alleged that the SCJN’s Piña-chaired Federal Judicial Council operates merely for decoration
Read moreThe Continuing Esquivel Plagiarism Saga, Season Two
According to the literary experts’ analysis, about 46.5 percent of Esquivel’s thesis was plagiarized
Read moreNavigating Mexico: The Government’s Credibility Gap
Mexico City’s Cuauhtémoc Mayor Sandra Cuevas was questioned recently about her academic career, and today her biography is offline
Read moreSCJN Head Clashes against AMLO on Constitution in Queretaro
For her part, Piña used her speech at the ceremony as an opportunity to advocate for Mexican judges to solely be appointed based on prior qualifications rather than arbitrary means
Read moreUNAM Punishes Professor for SCJN Minister’s Purported Plagiarism
UNAM’s Technical Council has ordered its Ethics Commission to open disciplinary proceedings against Rodríguez Ortiz for her purported role in the Esquivel plagiarism scandal
Read moreA Legion of Citizens
Whoever wins, we will not give up democracy. Battered and all, democracy will prevail
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